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Most postings look for programming fundamentals plus hands-on work with an NLU platform (Dialogflow, Rasa) or LLM prompt engineering, and a portfolio of deployed bots or coursework projects matters more than a specific degree.
Yes, it's a common transition at companies like Yellow.ai and Haptik, where domain knowledge of support workflows combined with self-taught NLU or prompt-engineering skills is enough to move into a junior conversational AI role.